Last Blast against the Blitz:
an Emergency Kit to Stop the War

April 3. Greenpeace now have an automated page where you can send a rewriteable letter to the foreign ministries of 13 key nations to lobby for Uniting for Peace. At http://act.greenpeace.org/ams/e?a=733&s=wr

The Council of Europe condemns "the military intervention in Iraq... firmly and asks the Governments of the states involved to put an end to it... The United Nations Security Council must stop the war... Should it be unable to do this, an extraordinary session of the United Nations General Assembly must be convened as a matter of urgency."

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That’s the way the U.N. keeps the peace when a permanent member of the Security Council is an aggressor. Uniting for Peace (UN Resolution 377) empowers the General Assembly to call up peacekeeping troops, when the Security Council is blocked - as it has been for months. Because keeping the peace is the U.N.'s basic mission, the General Assembly can call on members within 24 hours "to take effective collective measures for the prevention... of acts of aggression."

It’s a last chance to save the children of Baghdad from the Mega-Terror of "Shock, Awe" and thousands of horrible deaths.

What to do: Fax or E-mail to the General Assembly, asking for a vote on an emergency peacekeeping action per Res. 377.

How to do it:

A. with this Uniting for Peace blaster kit (www.unitingforpeace.com).

1. Write your message, whatever comes to you, or use some soundbites, too. It can be brief.

2. E-mail your inspired memo to all member nations of the UN. You have a choice to do it in one or more of these ways:

Send your message to the entire General Assembly at one click!

C. Copy your message directly to all the General Assembly members with one click at  http://progressiveaustin.org/email_un.htm. (Or you can copy it the old way from the list below.)
Also: 170 email addresses for letters to the editor at English language newspapers outside the stateside.
At www.waronfreedom.org /activists/emleted.html

D. Sign the Online petition, http://uniting.free.fr/petition.htm.(Drawback: no Comment field.)

E. Lobby the UK and Turkish parliaments, revoke US airspace overflight rights, and some other actions.

F. Appeals for Uniting for Peace in French and Spanish, with a letter in each language and e-mail addresses of Francophone and Hispanic UN Missions - good for getting the message to their governments back home. (The English version can be used as a sample message, as can those at www.waronfreedom.org/petition.html  or www.waronfreedom.org/unite4peace.html.
There are several e-mail addresses in the list to the French government, but we couldn’t find one for Chirac. You can write him online at http://www.elysee.fr/ecrire/index.htm. For "Sujet principal," select: politique etrangere. "Ecrivez" - Write or paste your message, in English why not, max. 4000 chars. Click on: "Envoyer" to send.)

G. One-click To: g-macagainstwar@mcmaster.ca. McMaster University will send your message to 400 official UN, US and Canadian addresses. Cc: is to us on info@unitingforpeace.com to collect original ideas in the letters, and to track how we’re doing.

3. You can blast a fax to the whole General Assembly, or just send your fax manually to the 4 numbers above.

"Fax blast - The Big One! Faxes make a much more powerful impression than e-mail. Your fax can easily end up on the ambassador's desk.
See details at www.waronfreedom.org/activists/un4pfax.html and - Blast away! Click on send, and 180 faxes go off at once."

4. Spread the word widely, too... post to networks, websites, listservs, discussion boards...

A. Appeals on humanitarian grounds - save the children.

B. The UN's charter and purpose: founded to preserve peace.

C. Important point: This petition is NOT against America, but to save US. Bush was not even elected, and is setting up a militarist tyranny. Public opinion is mercilessly manipulated by a right wing media cartel.

D. This petition is NOT for Saddam Hussein, it's against "destroying a city in order to save it." (How many American military interventions overthrew democracies to set up dictatorships!)

E. Jimmy Carter declares the "unilateral attack on Iraq" an unjust war "almost unprecedented in the history of civilized nations." (NY Times, March 9.) Worse than Hiroshima, like Guernica magnified 100 times.

F. The attack on Iraq has nothing to do with WMD (the Pentagon knows Iraq’s weapons were destroyed in 1991 - see the Kamel Hussein story.)  The war has everything to do with oil - and obeisance to the apartheid state of Israel; it has been planned by the "neo-con" lobby at least since the 1970 oil crisis.

G. The Bush dynasty's close links to Nazism

H. There is NO LINK between Iraq and terrorism. Bush, Powell and Blair have been caught faking evidence over and over. Even the "War on Terror" may be bogus: research shows the WTC disaster was an inside job, like the Reichstag Fire, Gulf of Tonkin hoax or Operation Northwoods. Bush’s attack might provoke the real terror reprisals he so desperately needs.

I. Cheney's Halliburton Co. wins a Pentagon contract to rebuild Iraq after war - as it did in Afghanistan.
(SF Chronicle, March 8)

J. We are going back to religious war. Bush says he knows God’s Will better than the Pope. Behind him, 70 million Americans push for Armageddon in the Middle East to fulfill an insane superstition of "the Rapture." (See www.waronfreedom.org/update.html)

The above points are suitable to any country; the rest are more for the world outside the U.S.

K. Appeal to their country’s self-interest! Let Bush in there, and his clique will hog the world's oil until it’s all gone!

L. France and Germany already proposed to send peacekeepers - it is the responsibility of the U.N. to give its blessing BEFORE half a million people are killed, not AFTER.

M. Bush said, "We really don’t need United Nations approval. We really don't need anyone's permission." Really?

N. Change the dialogue - ask the UN to move to lift the sanctions on Iraq that have caused so much suffering! This process could provide a diplomatic face-saving formula for the presence of armed peace-keepers.

O. Even a token force of blue helmets along the fence to Kuwait should make the US military pause.

P. Perhaps even a General Assembly vote against the attack would do it. No U.S. veto there. The Assembly represents the Whole World. The Bush clique can’t claim the whole world is wrong - and they can’t bribe the whole world, either!

Q. More ammunition at www.traprockpeace.org, Glen Rangwala on faked "evidence" of banned weapons; American Association of Jurists call for an immediate General Assembly session for Uniting for Peace!

Time is really short! Please lobby for Uniting for Peace before any more petitions to Congress or White House (projects that feel good, but have as little chance of stopping the blitz as a greeting card to Adolf Hitler! See the story on Congress fiddling like Nero: http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0228/p01s01-woiq.html

References

  Text of Resolution 377 www.us-israel.org/jsource/UN/unga377.html.
English, French, Russian, Spanish, Chinese texts of 377 and 290: http://habitat.igc.org/peace/a-r290e.htm

  Background Info www.danirak.dk/english/ratner_final_op_ed_uniting.htm about Uniting for Peace and stopping the war on Iraq from CCR, Center for Constitutional Rights, also Action Alert
www.ccr-ny.org/v2/whatsnew/action_v2.asp. Michael Ratner of CCR deserves the credit for the contemporary "re-launching" of Uniting for Peace into public awareness.

  Writing tip from earthfuture.com: "The shorter, the sweeter. Speak from the heart, in one paragraph. Speak with kindness, not anger. We want peace, not more belligerence. Individual addressing is better than CCing. BCC is better than CC."

I hope to post some of your Original letters soon! First day's comments on the petition to Europe to send peacekeepers to Iraq are posted at Signers Comments

Email List:
You may need to split the list into two or more shorter ones. Some ISP's limit the number of addresses you can send a mail to at the same time. (The Austin site offers the list as a whole or split four ways.)

It's definitely recommended to paste the bulk of the addresses in the Bcc: (blind copy) field, each recipient doesn't need to see the whole list, their mailboxes may be getting too full already!

Example structure - To: Secretary General, Presidents of Sec. Council and Gen’l Assembly, French German and other governments.

Copy: to intergovernmental organizations with observer status, extra addresses for security council.

Blind copy: to regular members of general assembly. Followed by email addresses for letters to the editor at English-speaking newspapers abroad.

To: sg@un.org, guinea@un.int, GAPresident@un.org, bundeskanzler@bundeskanzler.de, gerhard.schroeder@spd.de, president@gov.ru, president@hrad.cz, president@po.gov.za, press@uruklink.net, romano.prodi@cec.eu.int, mail@primeminister.gr, presidencia@venezuela.gov.ve, pr@planalto.gov.br, joschka.fischer@bundestag.de, ambassade@amb-allemagne.fr, christian.jouret@consilium.eu.int, christopher.patten@cec.eu.int, france@un.int, france-presse@un.int, francophonie@un.int, info@botschaft-frankreich.de, oau-ews@telecom.net.et, oiccabinet@arab.net.sa, paris@embassyiraq.com, poul.nielson@cec.eu.int, stm@stm.dk, webmaster@foreign.gov.za, info@moveon.org, info@unmovic.org, official.mail@iaea.org

CC: aalcc@un.int, caribcomun@un.int, RedCrossCommittee@un.int, ec@un.int, francophonie@un.int, holysee@un.int, ilo@un.int, isa@un.int, info@unitingforpeace.com, seaun@un.int, las@un.int, oau@un.int, oic@un.int, Chinamission_un@fmprc.gov.cn, contact@germany-un.org, france-presse@un.int, info@cameroonmission.org

BCC: afghanistan@un.int, albania@un.int, algeria@un.int, andorra@un.int, angola@un.int, antigua@un.int, argentina@un.int, armenia@un.int, australia@un.int, austria@un.int, azerbaijan@un.int, bahamas@un.int, bahrain@un.int, bangladesh@un.int, barbados@un.int, belarus@un.int, belgium@un.int, belize@un.int, benin@un.int, bhutan@un.int, bolivia@un.int, bosnia@un.int, botswana@un.int, braun@delbrasonu.org, brunei@un.int, burkinafaso@un.int, burundi@un.int, caf@un.int, cambodia@un.int, cameroon@un.int, canada@un.int, capeverde@un.int, chad@un.int, chile@un.int, china@un.int, colombia@un.int, comoros@un.int, congo@un.int, costarica@un.int, croatia@un.int, cuba@un.int, cyprus@un.int, czechrepublic@un.int, delun@mfa.no, denmark@un.int, djibouti@nyct.net, dominica@un.int, dprk@un.int, dr@un.int, drcongo@un.int, elsalvador@un.int, eqguinea@un.int, ecuador@un.int, egypt@un.int, eritrea@un.int, estonia@un.int, ethiopia@un.int, fiji@un.int, finland@un.int, france@un.int, gabon@un.int, gambia@un.int, georgia@un.int, germany@un.int, ghana@un.int, greece@un.int, grenada@un.int, guatemala@un.int, guinea@un.int, guyana@un.int, haiti@un.int, honduras@un.int, hungary@un.int, iceland@un.int, india@un.int, indonesia@un.int, iran@un.int, iraq@un.int, ireland@un.int, italy@un.int, ivorycoast@un.int, jamaica@un.int, japan@un.int, jordan@un.int, kazakhstan@un.int, kenya@un.int, korea@un.int, kyrgyzstan@un.int, laos@un.int, latvia@un.int, lebanon@un.int, lesotho@un.int, liberia@un.int, libya@un.int, liechtenstein@un.int, lithuania@un.int, luxembourg@un.int, macedonia@un.int, madagascar@un.int, malawi@un.int, malaysia@un.int, maldives@un.int, mali@un.int, malta@un.int, marshallislands@un.int, mauritania@un.int, mauritius@un.int, mexico@un.int, micronesia@un.int, moldova@un.int, monaco@un.int, mongolia@un.int, morocco@un.int, mozambique@un.int, myanmar@un.int, namibia@un.int, nepal@un.int, netherlands@un.int, newzealand@un.int, nicaragua@un.int, niger@un.int, nigeria@un.int, oman@un.int, pakistan@un.int, palau@un.int, panama@un.int, paraguay@un.int, peru@un.int, philippines@un.int, png@un.int, poland@un.int, portugal@un.int, qatar@un.int, romania@un.int, rusun@un.int, rwanda@un.int, samoa@un.int, sanmarino@un.int, senegal@un.int, seychelles@un.int, sierraleone@un.int, singapore@un.int, slovakia@un.int, slovenia@un.int, solomonislands@un.int, somalia@un.int, southafrica@un.int, srilanka@un.int, stkn@un.int, stlucia@un.int, stp@un.int, stvg@un.int, sudan@un.int, suriname@un.int, swaziland@un.int, sweden@un.int, syria@un.int, tajikistan@un.int, thailand@un.int, togo@un.int, tto@un.int, tunisia@un.int, turkey@un.int, turkmenistan@un.int, uganda@un.int, ukraine@un.int, uae@un.int, uruguay@un.int, uzbekistan@un.int, vanuatu@un.int, venezuela@un.int, vietnam@un.int, yemen@un.int, yugoslavia@un.int, zambia@un.int, zimbabwe@un.int, mission@palestine-un.org, Saudi-Mission@un.int, switzerland@un.int, cfads-dfvsr@wanadoo.fr, Presse@df-brigade.de,  info@occar-ea.org, Cellule.Communication@defense.gouv.fr, remote-printer.Kofi_Annan@12129637055.iddd.tpc.int

Total about 230 diplomatic addresses. (Omitted: us@un.int, uk@un.int, israel@un.int, kuwait@un.int, spain@un.int, bulgaria@un.int).

Updated 5 April 2003

Previous updates:

March 31. Petition the UN to call a ceasefire. Civilians in Basra, Baghdad, Kerbala and other cities have been deprived of water, food and other essentials by bombardment and siege. Humanitarian aid can not get through the chokehold of overwhelming firepower of the fascist axis forces.

In your message to the UN, please ask the General Assembly to call for an immediate cease-fire to allow humanitarian shipments to relieve civilians under siege.

Operation Iraqi Fraud-Dumb - Michael Moore and The Mysterious Microphone Ploy
Although we have all now witnessed the wonders of visual "movie magic" in the editing of news footage (remember the missing protestors in the footage of the presidential inauguration?), a new, more insidious bit of "magic" is gaining favor with Joe Goebbels' sick heirs in Amerika...
When Michael Moore delivered his blast at the Bush Reich at the Oscars, he got a standing ovation and hearty applause. But, on the soundbyte from network news, all you hear are boos...which eyewitnesses say came from just five people. Probably paid hecklers.

March 28. HJ Resolution 20
Friends and Concerned Americans,
Against all odds, there were enough signatures, e-mails telegrams and phone calls to Congressman Dennis J.Kucinich of Ohio to persuade him to introduce before the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. a little known resolution that deprives the putative resident of the white house of his authority to wage war.
However, we must now persuade Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert that there is a growing consensus to mandate the resolution for a House ballot.
Therefore, please take a moment to e-mail Speaker Hastert by simply saying, "I am in favor of introducing HJ Resolution 20 for a vote."
Speaker Hastert's e-mail: Speaker@mail.house.gov

March 25. Action Alert - Emergency Security Council Meeting tomorrow, Wednesday 3 p.m. EST.
We are sending faxes to ten SC members who are not in "the coalition of the coerced," asking them to vote to transfer the Iraq crisis to the General Assembly, under the Uniting for Peace Resolution.
The meeting may go on into Thursday. It's an open meeting, all U.N. members may participate, so you might want to email or fax blast to all 191 members of the UN. AP wire story

Suggested Points
Declare the US-UK invasion illegal, and demand the immediate withdrawal of the aggressors.
The UN General Assembly should demand the US-UK to leave a cheque for several $billion on their way out, too, as a first instalment on the damage and wrongful deaths.
UNMOVIC (disarmament inspectors) must return now, accompanied by peacekeeping troops to prevent the Bush regime carrying on its policy of faking evidence by planting - and then using - biochemicals.
Security Council could not do anything because of US-UK veto power, still can't, making this clearly a case for Uniting for Peace and the General Assembly.
Call on member nations to send peacekeepers to Baghdad, Basra and other stricken cities.
The humanitarian crisis requires neutral intervention to prevent further suffering.
Declare the US cluster bombs and "depleted" uranium to be illegal weapons of mass destruction.
Sample letter
You may address the message to "Permanent Representative to the United Nations."

Fax number list France, 212-421-6889; Germany, 212-940-0402; Guinea, 212-687-8248; Russia, 212-628-0252; Syria, 212-983-4439; Pakistan, 212-744-7348; Mexico, 212-688-8862; Cameroon, 212-249-0533; Chile, 212-832-8714; Angola, 212-861-9295; China, 212-634-7626 (busy signal)

You could also copy your message to the following influential nations which, while not SC members, have spoken out in favor of Res. 377:
Malaysia, 212-4908576; Indonesia, 212-9729780; South Africa, 212-6922498; Cuba, 212-7791697;
Brazil, 212-3715716; New Zealand, 212-7580827; Switzerland, 212-2861555

March 20. Visit our online petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/StopWorldWar3

"LAST CHANCE TO GIVE PEACE A CHANCE! Stop WW III - Stop Bush's Blitzkrieg on Iraq"

The petition has been adapted to the onset of the US onslaught, and the U.N.’s retreat in the face of Bush’s Blitzkrieg ultimatum. We call for an emergency meeting of the General Assembly to outlaw the attack and initiate a peacekeeping action.

After signing online, please copy your petition or personal comment to these key people:

To: Your Excellencies, Dear Ministers,

Jacques Chirac, Prime Minister, France; Gerhard Schroeder, Prime Minister, Germany; Saddam Hussein, President, Iraq; Vladimir Putin, President, Russia; Dominique de Villepin, Minister of Foreign Affairs, France; Joschka Fischer, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Germany; Tarik Aziz, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iraq; Igor Ivanov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russia; Tang Jiaxuan Buzhang, Minister of Foreign Affairs, China; Kofi Annan, Secretary General, United Nations

Email To: bundeskanzler@bundeskanzler.de, gerhard.schroeder@spd.de, president@gov.ru, uruk@uruklink.net, press@uruklink.net, joschka.fischer@bundestag.de, sg@un.org, info@botschaft-frankreich.de

CC: ambassade@amb-allemagne.fr, christian.jouret@consilium.eu.int, christopher.patten@cec.eu.int, Chinamission_un@fmprc.gov.cn, contact@germany-un.org, france@un.int, france-presse@un.int, guinea@un.int, GAPresident@un.org, iraq@un.int, romano.prodi@cec.eu.int

Fax your message to them via these Foreign Ministries: France 011-331-455-16012; Germany 011-4930-5000-3402; Russia 011-7-095-230-2130 or 011-7-095-244-9157; China 011-86-10-6596-3374; Iraq 1-212-772-1794; U.N. 1-212-963-7055

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